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Mystical metal of gold; essays on alchemy and Renaissance culture.

Ed. by Stanton J. Linden. (AMS studies in the Renaissance; no.42)
AMS Press, ©2007    435 p.    $94.50    QD26
0-404-62342-5

The current state of scholarship on Renaissance alchemy and hermeticism is demonstrated by historians of science and of art and scholars of literature. Among their topics are English alchemist Arthur Dee, author of Fasciculus Chemicus and son of Dr. John Dee; Middle English verse treatises in early modern manuscripts; physical chemistry and theo-chemistry in the works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605); and the Cure of Folly by Hieronymus Bosch. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)